Born in Little Falls, New York, on March 1,
1915, Frederick Clarke was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers in 1937
after graduating fourth in his Military Academy class.

Clarke received a master's degree in civil
engineering from Cornell University in 1940 and later attended the Advanced
Management Program of the Graduate School of Business, Harvard University.

During World War II he commanded a battalion
that helped construct a military airfield on Ascension Island in the South
Atlantic, and he served in Washington,D.C., with Headquarters, Army Service Forces.

After the war Clarke worked in the atomic energy
field for the Manhattan District and the Atomic Energy Commission at Hanford,
Washington, and at the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project at Sandia Base,
Albuquerque, New Mexico. As the District Engineer of the Trans-East
District of the Corps in 1957-59, he was responsible for U.S. military
construction in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, and he initiated transportation
surveys in East Pakistan and Burma.

In the decade before his appointment as Chief
of Engineers, Clarke was EngineerCommissioner of the District of Columbia (1960-63);
Director of Military Construction in the Office of the Chief of
Engineers (1963-65); Commanding General of the Army Engineer Center and
Fort Belvoir and Commandant of the Army Engineer School (1965-66); and
Deputy Chief of Engineers (1966-69). As Chief of Engineers
Clarke guided the Corps as it devoted increased attention to the environmental
impact of its work.

General Clarke was awarded the Distinguished
Service Medal and the Legion of Merit.

General Clarke was buried in Section 32, Grave
387, Arlington National Cemetery, on 26 February 2002.From a contemporary press report:

Lieutenant General Frederick J. Clarke, 86,
who served as the Engineer Commissioner for the District of Columbia from
1960 to 1963 and as the Army chief of engineers from 1969 to 1973, died
of cancer February 4, 2002, at the Fairfax Army Retirement Home at Fort
Belvoir, Virginia.

He had lived in the Washington area since the
1960s, settling in Alexandria.

General Clarke was appointed by resident Dwight
D. Eisenhower in early 1960 to be one of the three commissioners responsible
for the administration of the District in the days before there was a Mayor
and D.C. Council.

As a highlydecorated officer from the Army
Corps of Engineers, General Clarke had evacuated rock quarries in Okinawa,
built barracks in Pakistan and trained troops for nuclear warfare by the
time he took the post, which he would later call one of his most difficult.

He was the technician-in-chief, called to address
the still-familiar problems of traffic gridlock, economic development and
low levels of funding. One of his first actions was to give a green light
to new sewage projects to prevent further spillage of wasteinto the polluted Potomac River.

At one point early in his term, he was the
only commissioner available for full-time duty, because one post was vacant
and the other commissioner had suffered a heart attack.

In the early 1960s, General Clarke participated
in talks that led to the compact agreement for construction of the Metro
system. As chairman of the District's zoning commission, he participated
in the debate over the controversial Three Sisters Bridge and over the
planned freeway through the heart of the District.

He was rousted out of bed on the morning of
President John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961 to preside over the task
of emergency snow removal.

Through it all, General Clarke, who had a low-key
managerial style, worried about being spread too thin -- he served on more
than 20 boards and commissions at one point, with limited staff -- but
was still respected for his thorough analyses.

Later, he was among the first heads of the
Army Corps of Engineers to be faced with the concerns of the nascent environmental
movement, which had been highly critical of the agency and its wetlands
policy. After the Environmental Policy Act of 1969, General Clarke presided
over the reevaluation of more than 600 projects and established an advisory
board comprising leaders from environmental groups.

General Clarke, a native of Little Falls, New
York, where he became the town's first Eagle Scout, was fourth in his graduating
class from the U.S. Military Academy in 1937. He received a master's degree
in engineering from Cornell University. He also completed graduate studies
at the Army War College.

During World War II, General Clarke commanded
a battalion of the 38th Combat Engineers during the construction of the
military airfield on Ascension Island, a key refueling point for transatlantic
flights to Africa.

He served as a logistics planner on General
George C. Marshall's staff. He also was an early developer of the "Red
Ball Express" operation that kept European beachheads supplied. As the
war in Europe ended, he was involved in the frenzied planning effort to
redirect supplies to the Pacific.

After the war, he commanded the Hanford, Washington,
site that produced plutonium for early atomic weapons. Later in the 1940s,
he was executive officer of the special weapons project at Sandia Base,
New Mexico., in charge of instructing troops in atomic warfare.

In the 1950s, he was an Army engineer for the
Trans-East District, with responsibilities ranging from Saudi Arabia
to Burma.

Among his decorations were two awards of the
Distinguished Service Medal and the Legion of Merit.

After a 37-year career, he retired in 1973
and served as executive director of the National Commission on Water Quality.
In the 1980s, he was a consultant to the Tippetts, Abbett, McCarthy, Stratton
engineering firm.

He was a president and fellow of the Society
of American Military Engineers, a president of the Army Distaff Foundation
and a member of the Army-Navy, Chevy Chase and Cosmos clubs.

Survivors include his wife of 63 years, Isabel
Clarke of Fort Belvoir; three children, Warren, of Newton, Mass., Isabel
Stevens of Alexandria and Nancy Clarke of Verona, N.J.; five grandchildren;
and three great-grandchildren.
CLARKE, FREDERICK J., Lieutenant General, United States
Army (Retired)(Age 86)

Of Fort Belvoir, Virginia, on February 4, 2002.
Beloved husband of Isabel Clarke;father of Warren E. Clarke, Isabel C. Stevens
and Nancy S. Clarke. Alsosurvived by five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
A funeral servicewill be held on Tuesday, February 26, 2002
at 1 p.m. at Fort Myer Chapel (Old Post Chapel). Interment will follow
at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington.

In lieu of flowers, please make memorial contributions
in his name to a charityof your choice.
CLARKE, FREDERICK JAMESLTG US ARMYVETERAN SERVICE DATES: 06/12/1937 - 07/30/1969DATE OF BIRTH: 03/01/1915DATE OF DEATH: 02/04/2002DATE OF INTERMENT: 02/26/2002BURIED AT: SECTION 32 SITE 387ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY